XUANDE INCISED SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1426-1435)

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A RARE EARLY MING CLOISONNE ENAMEL CUP STAND
XUANDE INCISED SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1426-1435)
The interior is cast with a domed ring to the centre with a flat well and everted rim, and is finely enamelled to the centre with a lotus spray, enclosed by a band of lotus petals, and a register of composite floral sprays to the well, under a further band of floral scroll and cloud scrolls at the rim, against a turquoise ground.
7 5/8 in. (19.3 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Collection of Henry and Sula Walton

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Lot Essay

Cloisonné enamel cup stands of Xuande mark and period are rare, and only two other examples incised with the current type of double-outlined mark appear to be published. The first, decorated with a nearly identical pattern to the present example is in the Palace Museum, Beijing, published in Metal-Bodied Enamel Ware, Hong Kong, 2002, no. 28, illustrated together with another Xuande-marked cup stand, no. 29; the second example is in the Pierre Uldry Collection, included in Chinese Cloisonné: The Pierre Uldry Collection, New York, 1989, no. 23.

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